Nice review of "Challenging The Myth" by the way. I read it a few years ago, and agree that it is someone's university masters thesis rather than a genuine book (not denigrating university work, but it was clearly written for a specialist market and not mass consumption).

Nice review of "Challenging The Myth" by the way. I read it a few years ago, and agree that it is someone's university masters thesis rather than a genuine book (not denigrating university work, but it was clearly written for a specialist market and not mass consumption).

My views exactly. It is tedious reading as any university thesis would be for non-academicians.

Tedious is tedious. Academic writing should be full of wit and sparkle, and not dry and dusty.

At least, that's the line I am going to take with my examiners

I have been taken to task more than once in my first year at uni for not being dry, academic and -- I kid thee not -- "verbose" enough. Among the many things that tertiary education has endeavoured to teach me thus far is that "appropriate" is a better word than "apt".

"To go to a cricket match for nothing but cricket is as though a man were to go into an inn for nothing but drink." - Neville Cardus
"What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?" - CLR James

I have been taken to task more than once in my first year at uni for not being dry, academic and -- I kid thee not -- "verbose" enough. Among the many things that tertiary education has endeavoured to teach me thus far is that "appropriate" is a better word than "apt".